From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: typo in accept-process-output (process.c)
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:17:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B8EF72.4090903@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sl6vhuml.fsf@debby.local.net>
>>> I think a better approach is to keep using `iff' (also known as `ssi' in
>>> French), but to make it such that the user can click on it to get to the
>>> Glossary where we add an entry for it.
>>> We could later on use the same feature for some other terms (e.g.
>>> "fringe").
>> The problem with using "iff" is that some readers will not notice that it is
>> not "if", or they might think that it is a typo. If we use "iff" as Stefan
>> suggested, then it is important that users have a _visual_ clue that this is
>> a glossary term and that they can click it to see its definition. That
>> visual clue would be enough to signal that this is not just "if" or a typo.
Just a thought: Is there any other (non-math and non-logical) software
that uses iff in the documentation?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-07 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-05 12:04 typo in accept-process-output (process.c) Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-05 12:21 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 20:01 ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-05 22:54 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-06 0:06 ` Nick Roberts
2007-08-06 6:41 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-06 14:19 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-06 20:50 ` Michael Olson
2007-08-07 11:02 ` Stephen Berman
2007-08-07 11:18 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07 11:31 ` Jason Rumney
2007-08-07 16:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-07 17:33 ` Drew Adams
2007-08-07 22:01 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-07 22:17 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2007-08-07 23:16 ` Drew Adams
2007-08-08 0:06 ` Jason Rumney
2007-08-08 0:21 ` Drew Adams
2007-08-09 0:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-08 3:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-08 5:50 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-08 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-08 20:14 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-08 20:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-08 20:27 ` martin rudalics
2007-08-08 20:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-12 20:33 ` Christian Schlauer
2007-08-12 22:01 ` Stephen Berman
2007-08-13 5:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-05 20:54 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-08 7:54 ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-09 0:07 ` Richard Stallman
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